Beckhoff to integrate their Industrial Automation tools in VS 2010

Beckhoff is a well know player of the Industrial Automation industry. They have been providing Microsoft based Real Time and Industrial Automation solutions for over 10 years and are brilliantly sticking to the latest innovations and enhancements of the PC world.

Beckhoff just announced the future release of TwinCat 3, an “eXtended Automation” version of its real-time machine control software introduced in 1996. The package will be ready for a Beta release at Hannover Fair 2010, and as a full product by the end of 2010.

The key features of this release are:

All Industrial Automation tools integrated into VS2010

Possibility to code C++ for cyclic logic – also the traditionally PLC languages are integrated into VS2010